Solve Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF7 and iMovie Issues

This guide is written for people who are having issues editing Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF7 AVCHD MTS/M2TS video files on Mac Yosemite through iMovie.

If you are confused with the problem that you can't edit your AVCHD MTS footages from Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF7 in iMovie, you'd better transcode your Panasonic GF7 AVCHD files first to resolve the incompatible problem.

"I have recorded many footages from Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF7 camera that in AVCHD MTS video format, now I would like to import these projects to iMovie 11 for editing. What I want is to edit AVCHD files natively in iMovie 11 on Mac, what video codec should I use? Can you recommend some software which can help me import and convert AVCHD to iMovie 11 natively?"

When it comes to iMovie, Apple claims that iMovie supports most commonly-used video codecs, including MPEG-4, DV, H.264, MPEG-2, AIC and AVCHD. However, users may find that MTS videos are grayed out when they are prepared to be linked into iMovie. The reason why you can't import Panasonic Lumix GF7 MTS files to iMovie can be various. On the one hand, iMovie cannot import raw MTS files moved from the private folder structure. On the other hand, iMovie hardly supports MTS footage recorded in 1080 50p or 60p.

As far as we know and the feedback from the Panasonic GF7 users, many nonlinear video editing software on Mac like iMovie 8/9/11, Final Cut Pro 6/7/X, Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid Media Composer, etc. can't perfectly import AVCHD .mts files from Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF7 directly. Well, if you make the recordings editable before taking to the program, the incompatible error won't happen anymore. Here you can download and apply Pavtube MTS/M2TS Converter for Mac ( Win ) to achieve the goal in a fast way. This best Mac AVCHD Converter displays a way of transcoding Lumix GF7 AVCHD MTS video to a Mac friendly format for working with iMovie maintaining original quality.

How to convert Panasonic Lumix DMC-GF7 AVCHD MTS footage to iMovie?[/b]Step 1: Download, install and run the Mac AVCHD Converter to load your AVCHD footages from Panasonic Lumix GF7 to the program by clicking "Add video" button. If you want to import several files at once, "Add from folder" button is available. Besides, drag and drop is also OK.

Step 3: Why not take around the "Settings" button on the main interface? Here, we can adjust our video size, (just according to personal requirements), bitrates or frame rate, remember that you should set them in appropriate default or you might not get an ideal effect.

Tips:Click "Snapshot" button when previewing the video and click "Option" to set the image format of screenshots.Click "Edit selected task", switch to "Effect" tab, you can tick off "Deinterlacing" box; switch to "Trim" tab, you can input time point in start and end box.

Step 4: When ready, click "Convert" button under the preview window to start format conversion. If you don't want to wait for the entire conversion process, you can tick off "Shut down computer after conversion" and go away to do other things.

Conclusion: Once the conversion is 100% completed, you can hit "Open" button to locate converted video files and copy the converted files to iMovie for smooth and easier editing.

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